Reward, Lost Cat, The Search for Spock is the book's title. It's meant to help anyone whose pet is lost. Steps to take before your pet gets lost to help ensure that it doesn't get lost and to make recovery easier, what to do in the first hours, first days, first weeks, and long term up to how to deal with the possibility of never finding your pet. My book is full of good advice and also has a "Quick Reference Guide" detailing the steps to take if your pet becomes lost.

Since Beth got me Spock as a present when I still lived in Albany, NY and she in Kernersville, NC, the book is also a story of how two people "find" each other, fall in love, conduct a long distance relationship, get married and are happy living together in NC.

Combining these two disparate elements (love and loss) allowed me to include humor and even recipes and I like to think of my book as my "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".

It's a true story where the main characters are feline. There are some humans too. It is a story of cat love and loss. It is also a story of two humans finding each other and of human love and bonding. My name is Don. I had three cats: Jones (who is all black with green eyes and is going on 21 years of age), Spock (who is an Abyssinian and is presently lost), and Sam (who is a huge orange tabby and who was a stray). I lived in Albany, N.Y. for 17 years and worked for the Department of Social Services. My wife Beth lives in North Carolina and had three cats: Smokey (who is a lovely lion like gray tabby with the largest head I have ever seen), Maggie (who was a solid black cat with gold eyes), and Rosey (who is also a solid black cat with gold eyes and who is Maggie's daughter). Beth and I are now married (8/90) and live in North Carolina with our cats. Maggie is dead, Spock is lost, and Junior (the youngster cat who is a tabby) now lives with us.

These are the main characters and the story is about how we all came to live together in North Carolina. I hope you find it interesting. It may make you cry, I hope it makes you laugh a little too.